Our NECO paper: Different news for different views: Political news-sharing communities on social media through the UK General Election in 2015. M.J. Williams, I. Ciorianu, H.T.P. Williams. In Proc. International Workshop on News and Public Opinion (NECO), May 2016. [AAAI PDF] [Open Access PDF]

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Where: PyDiff, The Cardiff Python User Group
When: 15 March 2016

What can Github and Meetup.com tell us about the UK’s digital tech clusters? In this talk I will describe how Python was used to mine these online platforms to compare programming expertise and tech communities in different regions of the UK. These data contributed to the recently launched Tech Nation 2016 report, which provides a comprehensive data-driven analysis of the UK’s digital tech clusters. [Slides on SpeakerDeck]

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I'll be giving a talk at PyDiff, a monthly meetup for Cardiff's Python User Group. The topic is mining online platforms (specifically, Github and Meetup) to understand the UK's digital tech clusters. To be held at Cardiff University's Trevithick Building on Tue 15 March.

Update: Slides available on Speaker Deck. Thanks to PyDiff for inviting me, and to organisers Martin Chorley, Vince Knight, and Daniele Procida.

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I will be presenting at the one-day Data Natives event being held at City University London on Fri 15th May 2015. I'll be talking about my current research on the analysis of robustness in real-world spatio-temporal networks.